Go Forth and Multiply
A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail
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How Jeans Got Their Names
The first fruit fly gene name happened in around 1910. Thomas Hunt Morgan discovered that some male flies had white eyes instead of red eyes and he called this like weird thing, which ended up as the name of the gene. There's double-part, deadpan, dax, hunt and doe-doh, master mind, menager, toa, nautilus and limo,. hotswach, hunt back, high-wire, hedgehog, homeless; hamlet and hippo.; tubby tin: take out t-shirt, talk and tango - a fruit-flies DNA is just dross or filler but these jeans are what make it a drossoph
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